Pyramid Visuals Blog

Commercial printer Blue Printing Company is in negotiations to purchase BD3, the digital printer owned by former Aldridge Print Group director Robert Aldridge.

SPM Print has made a bid to boost its pressroom’s green credentials after investing £200,000 in a Heidelberg Suprasetter 75 platesetter and Prinect pre-press workflow.

UK print has been well represented in the latest Sunday Times Best Green Companies list 2011.

Wide-format display and signage printer Octink has been named in The Sunday Times Best Green Companies list for the third year running.

McGowans Print has invested in an HP Scitex FB7500 flatbed printer in a bid to offer customers improved turnaround on POP and POS applications.

Durst has unveiled its latest inkjet digital printer for the textiles sector, the Kappa 180, which the manufacturer claims offers a “genuine alternative to flat bed screen printing”.

Labelsprint has invested in the UK’s first Xeikon 3500 digital colour label press in a bid to take a “larger bite” out of the long-run flexographic market.

Not-for-profit contact centre provider Bss has invested in a Xerox Colour 1000 digital press as the company migrates from litho to on-demand digital printing.

Digital printing technology can reduce overproduction by 22 per cent and reduce the carbon footprint of a book by up to a fifth, a study commissioned by HP claims.

Domino Printing Sciences has said trading was “in line” with group expectations after it recorded an upswing in both revenues and pre-tax profits for the half-year to 30 April 2011.